Bad Trip

Gunsmith Cats #5

by Kenichi Sonoda

Rally Vincent`s frantic hunt for an antidote to the poison in her veins has led her straight to ultrawoman assassin Goldie. Drugged to the gills, Rally discovers that Goldie`s lair is chock-full of other young women who`ve been drugged and brainwashed for Goldie`s personal use as slaves and hit-women. And to make matters worse, Goldie`s intentions are to program Rally to kill her old friend, Chicago detective Roy Coleman! Bad Trip continues the white-knuckle events begun in Goldie vs. Misty, so gas up your muscle car, put on your body armor, and bring plenty of ammo!

Genres: Manga, Comics

170 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2000

About the author

Japanese Profile: 園田健一

Sonoda Kenichi is a Japanese manga artist and animation character designer.

Reviews

[Sean Newgent · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Goldie saga continues and...meh. The action is pretty uninteresting and the resolution is just a big to be continued. Rally's love for Misty seems to be the string holding things together but there's barely enough character development between the two to make it as cute as the author probably wants. Nudity and violence abound in this very unsatisfying chapter in the Gunsmith Cats saga. I keep reading at this point out of morbid curiosity and love for the character designs. But this series is becoming such a by-the-numbers bore.

[Andre · Rating 1 out of 5]

Re-reading. Comments for the series. I remember liking these in the 90s as action mangas with cool guns and cars. I now find them to have the details of action movies without the meat of it, filled with clichés from mangas and movies, all "cool-looking" scenes with no story/character depth behind it. More free space on my shelves.

[Trip · Rating 4 out of 5]

(I'm so retro, I read this as individual issues.)